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Tower of Shadows

19 Thursday Apr 2012

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A blast from the past. Online versions of late-1960s Marvel Comics adaptations of “The Terrible Old Man” and “Pickman’s Model”, in their Tower of Shadows title…

Erik Kriek

19 Thursday Apr 2012

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Broken Frontier reports on a new book of Lovecraft adaptations by Dutch comics celebrity Erik Kriek….

“It would be tempting to illustrate Lovecraft’s highly descriptive style with as few words as possible but Kriek – perhaps aided by producing his wordless Gutsman comics for so many years – recognizes the importance of Lovecraft’s particular wording and rhythmic stance. He opts to use captions in combination with their visual representations but adds enough visual stimulus so that words and pictures form an interdependent relationship. It is a decision prone to many traps (as many a literary graphic adaptation can attest to) but Kriek succeeds fairly well. He knows when to step back, let the dialogue take over and when to cut back on the caption level.”

Update, 2021: A decade later, and still no translation into English. In fact, almost nothing of his is in English. Does he just ask too high a price for the translation rights?

Lovecraft project wins Amazon Studios attention

19 Thursday Apr 2012

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Online retailer Amazon recently decided to start Amazon Studios, hoping to snag original scripts and pitches, and turn them into movies.

Fear.net has a new interview with screenwriter Alex Greenfield…

“His biggest success so far has been The Temple, a Lovecraftian tale about evil in the Afghani desert. With The Temple, Alex won Amazon’s July 2011 overall Best Script Award — then Amazon gave him a bunch of money to create a “test movie.” Alex took us through the process of working with Amazon Studios, and tells us about his upcoming genre projects.”

Rather than the underwater setting of the Lovecraft story, in Greenfield’s version the temple is found by U.S. Special Forces in the lawless mountain region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Namecraft of Lord Dunsany

17 Tuesday Apr 2012

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It’s behind a paywall, but this new academic article might interest…

Robinson, Christopher L. (2012)   “The Stuff of Which Names are Made: A Look at the Colorful and Eclectic Namecraft of Lord Dunsany”.   Names: A Journal of Onomastics.  Volume 60, Number 1, March 2012, pages 26-35.

“Lord Dunsany’s prolific namecraft provides a rich field for study, but poses difficulties for traditional approaches to names in literature, which typically seek out the hidden meanings or symbolisms of isolated names. An alternative approach is to look for trends in the forms and substances of the author’s inventions as a whole. To this end, Emile Souriau’s threefold typology of neologisms proves useful. In the first category, Dunsany camouflages pre-existing vocables of diverse origins. In the second, he employs anglicized versions of forms identified with foreign languages and nomenclatures, though he does not introduce actual foreign sounds. In the third, he constructs names from morphological building blocks. Whether English or foreign, Dunsany divests his source materials of their original referents, yet retains traces of their idiomatic provenance. Colorful and eclectic, his inventions resonate within a mythopoetic encyclopedia of diverse literary, historical, and cultural traditions.”

Tentacular bookends

12 Thursday Apr 2012

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Tentacular bookends…

The maker is open to commissions, perhaps for a similar stand for your Kindle ereader?

Innsmouth Magazine #1-4 for free

12 Thursday Apr 2012

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The first four editions of Innsmouth Magazine have been collected and are free for a short while, until this coming Friday. The bundle is available for the Kindle in the USA and the UK.

Oceanomania

10 Tuesday Apr 2012

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New book, Oceanomania: souvenirs of mysterious seas, from the expedition to the aquarium (Sept 2011)…

“Oceanomania investigates the evolution of our fascination with the sea, in time and space, design, literature and art, revealing how the uncanny and marvelous have inspired artistic research.”

‘Mapping the Marvellous’ blog has previews of a good many interior pages in the book.

“The Pilot’s Dilemma”

09 Monday Apr 2012

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A new book cover that I made… click on the picture to see the big version…

If anyone wants a custom book cover made, in the SF and fantasy line, I’d be happy to oblige for a small fee.

Kevin Weir

05 Thursday Apr 2012

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Vintage photos, animated with spook-imation…

The Lurking Fate That Came To Lovecraft

04 Wednesday Apr 2012

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The b&w horror comics magazine Creepy has been revived, and issue No.8 (out now) has part one of a story titled “The Lurking Fate That Came To Lovecraft”…

The strip has excellent reviews here and here.

Lovecraft to Borges: cities in deserts

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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A seemingly new (Nov 2011) short scholarly paper, in French. Reflets de villes dans le désert : de Lovecraft a Borges (“Reflections of cities in the desert: Lovecraft to Borges”)…

“There is a traditional conception of the fantastic city. It rises in the Gothic novel, and has been perpetuated in the modern horror, imposing an urban topography across two or three levels — articulated as a social reality, a visceral fear, and as a symbolic expression.”

Richard Corben’s 1972 adaptation of “Rats”

02 Monday Apr 2012

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A blast from the past. An early Richard Corben B&W ‘underground’ strip from 1972, adapting “The Rats in the Walls”…

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